Lead Applied AI Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 31, 2025. Junior AI scores A on the Alion truth index.
About Junior
Junior is building the AI operating system for investment research. Our software helps private equity firms, consultants and financial institutions complete high-stakes research workflows dramatically faster - from diligence and memo writing to market mapping, research synthesis and strategic analysis.
We’re trusted by 20/30 Top Global PE Funds by AUM & 18/20 Top Global Strategy Consultants
Bootstrapped and profitable
$25M+ in revenue after growing 10x last year
70+ people across the company
25-person engineering team
Join as our third Applied AI hire!
Role Description
As one of our first AI/ML hires, you'll have the unique opportunity to:
Move quickly from research to production
Freedom to experiment with new approaches and stay current with the latest research.
Raise the quality bar for AI systems used by the world’s leading PE/Consulting firms.
Collaborate closely with our customers and shape the product direction
Sample set of projects
State-of-the-art transcription using ensembles of frontier models.
Voice agent for market research interviews that identifies gaps, knows where to probe, and develops new hypotheses.
Self-improving AI systems where product usage feeds back into evaluations and optimization.
Agentic entity-resolution system that combines in-app and web context to resolve mistranscribed company names and aliases
About You
We're looking for product-minded AI/ML engineers who:
Based in NYC
Are opinionated about their work and eager to contribute to product decisions
Have strong communication skills and a desire for a client-facing role
Are able to break down AI/ML problems for a non-technical audience clearly and succinctly, and translate their suggestions into testable experiments.
Have experience building LLM systems from the ground up in a product-focused organization, and can help drive everything from data gathering / logging → prompt optimizing
Have a strong bias to action, highly organised and experienced working with senior stakeholders to deliver large projects end to end
Excited to build a team
Benefits
Private health insurance
Equinox gym membership
401k match
Dinner provided when working late
Team lunch provided every day at the office
Bi-annual international off-sites, recently including Crete and Cancún
How to Apply
If you’re excited to drive innovation at Junior, we’d love to hear from you!